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Facebook heavyweights snub Canadian Parliament

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will not attend a hearing in Ottawa later this week, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian Parliament, their company has confirmed. The decision could result in the executives being held in contempt of Parliament. ...

What Huawei ban means for Africa

The shockwaves over President Donald Trump preventing US companies from conducting business with Huawei continue to reverberate around the world and Africa is now addressing the fallout. Legalbrief reports that Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko this week called for a co-ordinated ...

MTN appoints Modise

* MTN has appointed Kelebogile Modise as its new group chief legal counsel, replacing Michael Fleischer who will retire in July 2019. According to a statement issued by the mobile operator, Modise's start date is yet to be announced. Modise ...

Advocate opens case against Facebook ‘scam’ accuser

East London Advocate Farai Kunatsagumbo has opened a case of defamation of character against a woman who posted his picture on social media, claiming he had tried to scam her. A Daily Dispatch report notes Kunatsagumbo, of the International Justice ...

Vodacom scraps with Kinshasa over disputed licence

Vodacom’s DRC operation will lose the right to provide 2G services this week unless it renews a disputed licence. A government directive threatens to disconnect some of Vodacom Congo’s 11.8m customers who are yet to switch to 3G and 4G, ...